Sports

Coach Mark Simon’s Beaver girls basketball squad played one of its strongest defensive games of the season last Thursday, but it wasn’t enough in a 44-29 loss at Mount Horeb as Reedsburg fell to 2-8 in Badger Small action.

The Reedsburg Beaver boys wrestling team has done something that no other Reedsburg Beaver sports team has done in over 40 years. The Beavers earned a share of this year’s overall title in Badger Small Wrestling after a strong showing at Saturday’s Badger Conference Tournament and that makes it five consecutive conference championship seasons.

Reedsburg was hoping to make it two wins in two nights in boys basketball action at Tomah last Tuesday, but it was not to be with the Timberwolves emerging with a 71-60 victory.

The Reedsburg/Wisconsin Dells/Mauston boys high school hockey co-op hosted its final game of the regular season last Tuesday and the opponent was one of the better teams on the RWD schedule this year, Monona Grove, who came into the game at 8-1 in the Badger Conference and still in contention for the league title.

Reedsburg was short-handed last week in the gymnastics room with Bridget McCormick and Audrey Matyas nursing injuries, but others stepped up and turned in solid scores in a pair of meets, one at home and one in Dodgeville.

River Valley hosted its first gymnastics meet of the season on Saturday, the seven-team River Valley Invite. R-V placed sixth in team scoring with a mark of 107.825 with Dodgeville at 138.7 easily winning the team title over runner-up Southwestern.

Coach Billy Oakes felt good and liked the matchup this past week against West Salem and Stevens Point Pacelli and the RWD skaters took care of business with a pair of non-conference wins, boosting the team’s win streak to four in a row in boys hockey action.

When RAHS senior Will Mikonowicz took the field for the early days of training camp in August in preparation for the 2025 Reedsburg Beaver football season, he was hopeful for a strong season as a returning starter at QB along with a big role at safety for the Beaver defense while also looking ahead to a collegiate career at Minnesota-Duluth, an

Last week was one to build upon for the River Valley Blackhawks boys basketball team, registering three wins in a span of four days, and one of them was a revenge game against the arch-rival Richland Center Hornets.

It was a rarity last week for Coach Joe Woodhouse and the River Valley Blackhawks girls basketball squad at this time of year, a one game week. The only action was a league game against SWC contender Platteville, on the road, and the result was a 74-51 loss with the Blackhawks slipping to 4-3 in the SWC and 11-7 overall.